Neither head coach was thrilled by what he saw Saturday night when the East Thunderbirds and South Wolverines faced off in a Cook Inlet Conference clash at South High. It was a sloppy game filled with mistakes that could’ve cost either team the game but it was the visiting T-Birds who came out on top, […]

For Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s political foes, there’s an intuitive appeal to recalling him from the state’s top executive seat. When you find yourself having taken a wrong turn while out hiking, for instance, you reverse course to the point where you departed from your intended path. When a business partnership goes sour, you explore new […]

STANBUL - Explosions and towering fireballs struck the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil empire on Saturday in an apparent wave of drone attacks claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. The blows knocked out more than half the kingdom's oil output for days or more and threatened to drive up already high tensions between Iran and its […]

COOPER LANDING — Jen Harpe looked over her 5-acre property on a recent weekday afternoon. The Swan Lake fire hadn’t torn into this Kenai Peninsula town this summer, as she worried it might, but it left scars.Stumps dotted Harpe’s land. Friends had cut down spruce trees, fearing they could ignite. Inside, a stack of family […]

Fall colors were turning as I drove home through the Kenai Mountains last week, a drive I’ve made a hundred times and more. There were new colors as well — high on the sun-lit mountainsides, the summer’s extraordinary fireweed had gone to seed in an unusual shade of pink cotton. And then, after Cooper Landing, […]

The state is getting mixed messages about its plan to reduce air pollution in Fairbanks and North Pole judging from dozens of written comments posted to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation website Sept. 6.

The University of Alaska Board of Regents approved a motion Friday that expands their consideration outside the single-accredited university model that has been facing backlash over the past few weeks.

“This is a major step forward in our decades-long efforts to allow for responsible resource development in Alaska’s 1002 Area,” said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. “I’m hopeful we can now move to a lease sale in the very near…

A majority of the discussion Thursday centered around whether the three individual universities in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau should consolidate into one accredited institution to cut costs and absorb what will end up being a $70 million cut in state…